Summarize

Summarize is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by MemTensor in memmy-agent.

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Install Summarize

Copy Summarize into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/MemTensor/memmy-agent/tree/main/App/memmy-agent/src/skills/summarize ~/.claude/skills/summarize

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/MemTensor/memmy-agent.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: App/memmy-agent/src/skills/summarize/SKILL.md in MemTensor/memmy-agent
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/summarize
Collection: One of 12 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Summarize does

Summarize extracts summaries or transcripts from URLs, local files, and YouTube links. Use it when you need a quick overview of an article, PDF, podcast, or video, or a best-effort transcript.

Summarize is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Summarize comes from a repository tagged agent, agentic-ai, ai-agents, chatgpt and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Summarize

Fast CLI to summarize URLs, local files, and YouTube links.

When to use (trigger phrases)

Use this skill immediately when the user asks any of:

“use summarize.sh”
“what’s this link/video about?”
“summarize this URL/article”
“transcribe this YouTube/video” (best-effort transcript extraction; no yt-dlp needed)

Quick start

summarize "https://example.com" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "/path/to/file.pdf" --model google/gemini-3-flash-preview
summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --youtube auto

YouTube: summary vs transcript

Best-effort transcript (URLs only):

summarize "https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ" --youtube auto --extract-only

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Summarize

What else does MemTensor publish alongside Summarize?
Summarize is one of 12 skills that DirSkills catalogs from MemTensor/memmy-agent, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Memory Onboarding, Cron and GitHub. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Summarize does, and is maintained by MemTensor in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the MemTensor/memmy-agent page.
How does Summarize compare to other Writing skills?
Summarize ranks #513 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Summarize against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.